posted 14th Nov 2016, 3:02 PM

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14th Nov 2016, 3:02 PM

And that's a wrap for this chapter.
Took me a while to translate this.
I'm taking a break this week.

For those who want to know more about the whole situation with the gnomes and the plague orcs, here's the gist.

The war has been over for almost a hundred years, but the plague orcs were still holed up in the kingdoms of the gnomes. It's hard to tell for certain who started the hostilities, but both warnings from Avalon (a governing body that is actually in control, consisting mostly of folks from both the Light and the Dark sides, all of about Galadriel's level of badassery) were ignored by both parties involved.
The second time Avalon sent their ambassadors to the plague orcs ended in the ambassadors being massacred. That prompted a violent response from Avalon that ended in total annihilation of the plague orcs. In order to preserve the balance, the gnomes were supposed to share the same fate. One clan, the Sindrul clan, volunteered to be the scapegoat - and was killed off as well. After that the gnomes had no where to go but aboveground. They mingled with the rest of the folk, and in time became what they are now.
This has little bearing on the story, but explains why the gnomes aren't really keen on joining any faction, Light or Dark, preferring to be neutral (though they are still considered to be in the Light stable, since this was the side they fought on during the War).